Friday, November 15. 2019

Today's schedule is ABCDL

A Block Physical Geography - Ice Worlds...you'll have time today to work on the glaciers work from yesterday. While doing so, we'll watch the BBC Earth - Power of the Planet episode on Ice

2X Faster: Glaciers disappear as more rain falls in winter
Gradation Unit Test Review:
Weathering & MW 
 Names of MW (Big 3 – flows slides and falls – speed and consistency) Chemical & Physical Weathering (Frost Action, Oxidation & Solution – Carbonation) Karst (Carbonation created it – found in limestone) – features (stalagmite, stalactite & flowstone) Slopes – causes of slope failure
 H2O & Streams 
 Water Cycle terminology (condensation, evaporation, precipitation, transpiration, percolation, infiltration, aquifer, zones of aeration and saturation) Where is most of fresh water Transportation of sediment in water (bed load & suspended load) Drainage Basins (Dendritic and Deranged) Young – mature – old profile (what’s going on in terms of erosion & deposition) and features of young & old Deltas (4 types) Floods * (causes, damages, impact) *hint hint Cross section of a river (meandering profile page 10 of week 8)
Coasts, Glaciers & Deserts
 Longshore Drift (swash & backwash) – depositional coastlines (spit/barrier bar) Erosional coastline (Cave-Arch-Stack) Continental vs Alpine erosion (scouring & plucking) – features cirque, horn (pyrimidical peak) & hanging valley, U Shaped valley & truncated spur, drumlin & fjord Deposition – moraines
Deserts – erosion (Aeolian) & transportation & desertification (increasing sizes of deserts – causes) Playa – alluvial fans

B Block Human Geography - Poster time! You have the block to finish your group poster assignment...remember your group will be responsible for discovering as much as they can about one of: Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam or Christianity. You'll need to find out how many followers there are, where the followers are distributed, beliefs and teachings (including books and or scriptures), branches (or subdivisions), and Holy locations. I'll give you some chart paper and smelly felts and your group will be responsible for creating and presenting a poster fact sheet for the class (remember think geographically with this activity). You may also use the website adherents.com or the website religionfacts.com or the BBC links above.

C/D Blocks Environmental and Social Sciences -  Your job today is to design, create, and execute a social media campaign to help further your knowledge, raise awareness, and create possible solutions to our plastic pollution problem. Complete the following:

1. Describe the problem.
2. Develop the social media plan. Remember to consider:
• Shocking, interesting, or horrifying facts you want to share
• Videos and pictures you want to share
• Frequency and schedule of posting
• Creating a video of yourself, making a call to action
3. Please use Plastic Oceans hashtags and handles to spread the word:
 @PlasticOceans #APlasticOcean #SaveOurSeas #PlasticPollution

So use Care2, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Tumblr (sigh), Pinterest, YouTube, or TikTok (try to avoid ask.fm)

Get the message out. Look at #OnePlasticFreeDay, #NoFilterNoFuture, #breakfreefromplastic,
#plasticfreechallenge, #IamLessPlastic, #10000changes

PL Block - Room 115 is open for business...drop by and get some help to get caught up.